Snapchat updated its privacy policy last week, and the changes left some users a tad freaked out. Among other things, the updated policy states that Snapchat has the right to “exhibit, and publicly display [user] content in any form and in any and all media or distribution methods[.]” Snapchat has now sought to reassure users: […]
Oliver Queen has fought all sorts of baddies; now he’s contending with pirates. On Sunday, online pirates got ahold of a rough cut of Episode 5, Season 4 of the CW’s superhero drama Arrow. The episode has already been downloaded well over ten thousand times. It airs on the CW November 7.
The Royals victory in the 2015 World Series once again handed FOX with a winner, as Game 5 drew a 10.0/17 household rating/share with 17.2 million viewers to rank as the most-watched Game 5 since 2003. The final contest was up 37% in rating and average audience over 2014 Royals-Giants Game 5 a year ago. […]
TMZ is coming to FS1, with the show announcing that it will expand its brand with the debut of TMZ Sports on the channel on Nov. 9 at midnight. The half-hour program will run as a strip on Monday-Fridays offering “exclusive up-to-the-minute, off-field stories and breaking news specifically focused on sports personalities making headlines around […]
Even Simon Cowell couldn’t save a Yahoo original series. The company, which recently announced $42 million in Q3 losses stemming from underperforming original programming, has now put the kibosh on Ultimate DJ, its planned electronic dance music competition. Cowell was set to produce. The news comes on the heels of last week’s decision to cancel […]
Let’s call the whole thing off: Unhappy with CNBC’s handling of the October 28 debate, Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus on Friday sent an open letter to NBC News chairman Any Lack saying the party is “suspending the partnership” on the grounds the CNBC debate had been “conducted in bad faith,” including a “petty […]
Surprise! AMC renewed The Walking Dead, the number one show on television among coveted A18-49ers, for a seventh season, as well as live after-show Talking Dead. “Thank goodness someone had a Magic 8-Ball with them in our many long internal meetings about these renewals. When, on the third shake, ‘without a doubt’ filled the murky […]
In the end, the ESPN-owned Grantland just couldn’t survive without Bill Simmons. The revered sports journalists created the site in 2011 and worked as its Editor-in-Chief until this past May, when he departed ESPN amidst strained relations with the company. Now ESPN has suspended the site’s publication entirely. Grantland was highly regarded for its commentary, […]
The curated video space is getting crowded. Facebook-owned Instagram has followed in the footsteps of Snapchat’s Live Stories feature and Twitter’s Moments feature: On Saturday (Halloween) through midday Sunday, the photo-and-video-sharing app ran an easily navigable, human-curated collection of Halloween-themed videos from Instagram users. An Instagram spokesperson told Re/code that this was “just the start” […]
Amy Poehler once stated that athletes made the best hosts of Saturday Night Live, due to their ability to take directions, and the NBC franchise has delivered the sports/comedy one-two punch in spades over the years spotlighting names that range from Joe Montana, Walter Payton and Chris Evert to Derek Jeter, The Rock and LeBron […]